7. Notre Dame: Mike Brey was spotted in a collared shirt, and not on Halloween.

8. Pittsburgh: A whopping 13-1 at home against Top 10 teams at the Pete.

9. Connecticut: Went shopping for milk, bread before pre-storm sprint to Newark.

10. Villanova: Leads the league in turnovers and finely tailored suits.

11. Providence: Outrebounded UConn by 31, and still lost.

12. Rutgers: Might be ranked if the games were 35 minutes long.

13. Seton Hall: Maybe one more injury away from holding open tryouts.

14. South Florida: Hermits score more often than these Bulls (60 ppg).

15. DePaul: They’re playing better . . . on ESPN Classic.

WHO’S HOT

The Big East: The old dog still has fight. Seven ranked teams this week, and might put eight in the Big Dance if St. John’s can keep grinding out wins. Plus Notre Dame signaled it will stay one more year, and the Catholic 7 are expected to follow suit.

Anyone playing DePaul: The Blue Demons have dropped seven straight and are yielding 72 points per game, by far the most in the conference.

Nate Lubick: The Georgetown forward leads the Big East in field goal percentage (.650) by nearly 17 percent and he posted 16 points and 10 boards in Georgetown’s win over St. John’s.

WHO’S NOT

Shooters: In 14 February games, 14 teams have failed to reach 60 points. Do we need to lower the rims?

West Virginia: Remember them? The Mounties are 11-11 overall and 4-5 in the Big 12. Bob Huggins, meet the CBI. Miss the sweatsuit, though.

ESPN: Thanks for shoving football signing day down everyone’s throat. Plenty of fax machines but no calendar, apparently. It’s February, time for basketball.

GAMES OF THE WEEK

Pittsburgh at Cincinnati, Saturday at 6 (ESPN): Get the stretchers ready when two of the country’s best rebounding teams mix it up inside.

Marquette at Georgetown, Monday at 7 (ESPN): The ball movement should be fun to watch as two savvy squads duke it out. Marquette is 2-4 on the road, while G-Town is 12-1 at home.

Seton Hall at Rutgers, Tuesday at 7 (ESPN2): Yeah, yeah, we know they’ve lost nine straight games between them, but there’s a reason why the Worldwide Leader is featuring it during rivalry week. The water always boils when these neighbors get together.

BY THE NUMBERS

2015—Target date for completion of the renovated Louis Brown Athletic Center (by the fall of that year). Work is expected to begin this offseason.

111—Meetings between Marquette and DePaul. No. 112 takes place Saturday.

35—Straight wins at the Carrier Dome for Syracuse.

15—Double-doubles for Notre Dame’s Jack Cooley this season, nearly double that of the next-closest player.

6—Of the 10 Big East meetings between Notre Dame and Louisville have gone into overtime. They play Saturday at 9 p.m.

“I’d like to focus on more positive stuff, but we have a saying around here, ‘The player who makes the same mistakes, that’s the sign of a bad player . . . Believe me, I didn’t want to watch any more film last night of Louisville, but we have to watch bits and pieces of it because we keep doing the same things and that’s not a healthy formula.” —Rutgers’ Mike Rice

“Sometimes you get beat by inferior talent that makes shots, but you don’t want to beat yourself with lack of focus, energy, effort and attitude—the different things you can control.” —UConn’s Kevin Ollie